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"The first off-grid solar farm and battery to power a mine site in New South
Wales is fully operational, its developer says, supplying an average up to 40
per cent renewable energy with the potential to operate in hydrocarbons-off
mode most days.
The 26 megawatt (MW) hybrid power system at Tronox’s Atlas–Campaspe mineral
sands mine near Hatfield combines an 11 megawatt (MW) solar farm, a 3 MW/6
megawatt-hour (MWh) battery energy storage system (BESS), 12 MW of diesel
generation and 13km of high-voltage powerlines.
It has replaced 41 distributed diesel generators that had been used to power
the mine, reducing its annual carbon emissions by around 13,000 tonnes and
displacing nearly five million litres of diesel a year.
Western Australia-based Pacific Energy announced the project’s completion on
LinkedIn on Monday, notching up the milestone as an “important step” in the
off-grid power system specialist’s expansion to Australia’s east coast."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
